Security and the War on Terror: Civil-Military Cooperation in a New Age (Contemporary Security Studies)

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The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point in international politics, representing a new type of threat that could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based structures of security alone. Opening up interdisciplinary conversations between strategic, economic, ethical and legal approaches to global terrorism, this edited book recognises a fundamental issue: while major crises initially tend to reinforce old thinking and behavioural patterns, they also allow societies to challenge and overcome entrenched habits, thereby creating the foundations for a new and perhaps more peaceful future. This volume addresses the issues that are at stake in this dual process of political closure, and therefore rethinks how states can respond to terrorist threats. The contributors range from leading conceptual theorists to policy-oriented analysts, from senior academics to junior researchers. The book explores how terrorism has had a profound impact on how security is being understood and implemented, and uses a range of hitherto neglected sources of insight, such as those between political, economic, legal and ethical factors, to examine the nature and meaning of security in a rapidly changing world.

Author(s): Alex Bellamy
Edition: 1
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 248

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Security and terrorism......Page 18
1 Security studies, 9/11 and the long war......Page 20
2 Cause and effect in the war on terror......Page 36
3 ‘War on terror’/‘war on women’: Critical feminist perspectives......Page 53
Part II: Ethics, emotions and law in the war on terror......Page 66
4 Emotions in the war on terror......Page 68
5 International law and the state of exception......Page 82
6 New thinking in the just war tradition: Theorizing the war on terror......Page 104
7 Pre-empting terror......Page 117
Part III: Fighting terror......Page 134
8 Failures, rogues and terrorists: States of exception and the North/South divide......Page 136
9 US bioterrorism policy......Page 153
10 Ethics and intelligence in the age of terror......Page 167
11 The international campaign to counter the financing of terrorism......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 201
References......Page 210
Index......Page 235